PDAs and Cell phones are going more and more to java for applications so phone and PDA makers are now looking more at what makes the best operating system to drive java.
Makes sense. Maybe we may even start seeing kernel optimisations designed to optimise the performance of Java - there may already be, but I'm not aware of any. Another advantage is that Linux has already been made available for a large number of CPU archictures, so the phone companies don't suffer from lock-in when it is time to get the next best chip for the job.
GSM was formed to reduce incompatibility and cost for the phone companies. Linux and J2ME would be the next logical step.
In Europe the task of recycling is being given to the manufacturer of the hardware. The idea being that in many cases manufacturers make their stuff so it is cheap to make, but not necessarily cheap to dispose of. Now manufacturers have an incentive to make products with recyclable materials, because they also need to take into account the cost of recycling.
IMHO, it all boils down to the question whether China really is the market of the future. Sure, it has a large population, and there are currently no mobile phones.
Sounds like you've never been to China or aren't in touch with the state of affairs of the country. When China decided to put in place a telephone infrastructre they went wireless, simply because it was the cheapest and fastest way to provide access to such a large teritory. To give you an idea of the coverage, check out the coverage map of China Mobile Communication Corp. Most people I met in China had mobile phones. In fact the coverage over there makes the setup in North America look terrible.
I don't know if Microsoft ever did anything for these platforms, but there is a third-party company, called Sourcegear that makes a solution for Unix based platforms.
For an OS used by so many people the last figure actually surprises me. Is this a question of people being uninterested in linking to Microsoft, or simply an indication that other sites develop more a sense of community? Or, OMG, maybe Google's results aren't accurate? Or something else? I'll leave the conclusions up to you.
Heh, that reminds me: I was cancelling an online subscription last night, and after verifying my password it gave me a summary screen of what I was doing and had two buttons : "Continue to Cancel" and "No, Do Not Cancel".
I can understand the possible confusion, but in theory this should be clearer than 'ok','cancel', but because of the context of the dialogue, the text of the buttons simply fails.
Maybe a better approach would have been 'yes' and 'no': "Are you sure you want cancel the subscription? 'yes','no'". Shorter button texts also tend to me visually clearer, but 'ok and 'cancel' tend to be over used to the extent that they don't always fit the context of the dialogue text.
Just curious, but what are the factors that make you prefer Linux over MacOS X? I am not suggesting that you are wrong to, even if it may come over like that, just that I would be interested in understanding your point of view.
One thing I never quite understood with Microsoft was the shear number of variations of the same OS. Surely having so many variations of the same operating system they are giving themselves a support nightmare? Apple and Sun seem to have two versions of their OSs, server and non-server. This simplifies support issues a whole bunch. Maybe Sun is not such a good example since they are 100% workplace, but Apple on the other hand is found in home and in the workplace.
Generally the only differences between a workstation version of an OS used the workplace are the networking features and the groupware style apps, but then again the latter is extra anyhow. Sure the kernel may be optimized differently, but the core components are architectually the same. Maybe I am missing something, if I am then please let me know?
Although I didn't mention Linux, it too, for any single distro, comes in a limited number of flavours.
Since some commercial book stores already do it, how about adding a Starbucks, or something similar to your public library. In that 'zone', there would be no requirement for quietness. If you want quiet, then leave the coffee and go to the rest of the library.
Also, how about 'community tables' in the coffee shop area? This is something I have already seen in some places. You can sit down at a large table and risk the chance of chatting to someone;)
What about damage? Well maybe you could have an 'in-library' check out. That way the books come under the same limitations as a normal checked out book.
In the long run, this should be similar to the Coffee sponsored Mozilla approach, so the library would get some return for doing this.
I don't know why, but the more I hear about the SCO suits and the RIAA suits, I am almost certain these lawyers are part of the same old boy network and play golf with each other every afternoon. Just imagine the evil they dream up together.
BTW I think I know who paid for that 'Linux' license, from SCO. It was probably MS for their research project;)
One thing that animation companies could do is reduce the cost of the DVDs. Here in Canada a DVD usually costs around $28 (Canadian) excluding tax, yet an anime DVD is usually in the $36-$46 ball park. Then add to that the first DVD in a series usually has four episodes and then all the subsequent DVDs only have 3, yet at the same cost!?
DVDs are already over-priced as they are. Though all said and done, given that I can't rent, anime DVDs, I find myself caving into buying them. There are many people who will quite happily aquire the 'reduced cost' versions, simply because they can't afford the outrageous prices, or out of principle.
Then again if the Russians managed to fly their shuttle remotely, what would be stopping NASA from doing the same? Then you would only need to put the essential crew on board.
What I would like to see the sorts of modifications that they make to the X-Serve. I can imagine that there will be the sorts of modifications to reduce noise drastically.
Is there a reason that./ is giving front page coverage to SCO's press release spinning an IBM counterclaim, rather than reporting on the counterclaim itself?
That would require extra work and then again nobody should dare go head to head with tradition;)
IBM also claims SCO Group has violated the general public license, or the GNU GPL, under which Linux is distributed.
Will this be the first time that the GPL has actually been used as part of a court preceeding? As far as I am aware all companies, who did not orginally comply, have felt that their public image was more important than a challenge of the GPL, and respected the contract of the GPL, even if it did take the FSF or public pressure.
Before a person should be considered a felon, it should be determined whether the person's rights were taken away before being considered a felon. If they were then it is always possible that an innocent person is labelled a felon when indeed they were exercising their 'legal rights'.
If you have ever walked into an internet cafe anywhere around the world, then you are likely to only be using IE and Windows. For many people the only contact they have with a PC is in internet cafes and most owners put a minimum install. You will also notice that Java is only available in the form of Microsoft's VM, so forget coding your applets with swing, or any other technology not part of JDK 1.1
For people who aren't techies the story is similar. They install what they understand and also what their peers seem to be using. Trying to explain the non-marketed alternatives is not easy. All too often we come off as techies and scare them because we do things differently.
Mozilla has a chance to exist, but it needs to be marketed differently. It needs to be included in the Linux distros and possibly even other 'marginal' OSs. MacOS X now has Safari, so Apple is unlikely to want to include Mozilla as an alternative, because that would mean that they would have to support it. Splitting Mozilla into several components is likely to help as this would make the browser much more appealing to many people. People seem to understand separate products better than a super product that does everything.
To make Mozilla more recognised, I believe three things need to be done: a) provide a 'supported' version b) get inet cafe owner to offer it, or at least Phoenix as an alternative and c) not use the Netscape name. The last point come from me talking to people who think of the cludge of Netscape 4.x when I am talking about Netscape 7.
Is anyone else reminded of that stupid architect from Matrix Reloaded? As though using more syllables implies hyper-intelligence.
The truth is the true genius is able to explain something as complicated as quantum mechanics and have everyone understand, without anyone's head exploding.
Trying to confuse everyone serves no purpose, other than superficially giving oneself an ego boost, and staying even more isolated.
Instead of making a better product, they whine and run away.
Well, that is one strategy and the one I prefer of companies who decide to give up. The other approach is to try to sue the competition for whatever they're worth, even if the arguments are lame. One current example of the later is one 3 letter company suing another 3 letter company and generating 3 letter FUD.
I'm certainly not saying that FCP is the be all, end all for video production (it isn't), but at least give it a chance, Adobe
The problem is if a company doesn't put enough of an effort in maintaining and improving their product, it will end up dying anyway if there is healthy competition. Half-assed work will usually loose out to the product that understands the word 'quality'. I am not saying that Premier is a poor product, but judging from the other posts, it would seem that Adobe's real worst enemy in this case was itself.
10.2.7 is the special 64-bit aware version of OS X, it only (at this stage) runs on G5's
That sounds about right, as the kernel need to be recompiled for the 64-bit processor. At this stage I would not be surprised if user-space is still 32-bit. What I mean by that is that most of the system libraries are still only offering 32-bit interfaces.
I wonder whether the September rollout is more to give developers time to get some development done with the prototype G5s that they probably have. By the time September comes we should see some beta 64-bit apps ready for the public.
I know that this is a lot of 'probably's but, that's all I have for the moment.
It doesn't explicitly say so on the page, but the game seems to be Windows/Dos only.
That's what I noticed as well, so I decided to go off on a quest of my own see what I could find. Turns out the best place to go is to the AGI Development Site and see what's available. You will need to download one of the interpreters, which are listed on the 'links' page.
The one I decided to download was the Java AGI. It comes with no documentation so you will need to compile it yourself and then realise that you need to create an empty 'agi.conf' file (will need to investigate the config values) in the classpath and use com.sierra.agi.tools.AGI to get things running, oh and the 'user.dir' should point to where the game is installed. After all this I am only at the stage at listening to the music, as I see no graphics. This is all on MacOS X, with JDK 1.4.1.
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There is also VLC, which is open source and very complete.
PDAs and Cell phones are going more and more to java for applications so phone and PDA makers are now looking more at what makes the best operating system to drive java.
Makes sense. Maybe we may even start seeing kernel optimisations designed to optimise the performance of Java - there may already be, but I'm not aware of any. Another advantage is that Linux has already been made available for a large number of CPU archictures, so the phone companies don't suffer from lock-in when it is time to get the next best chip for the job.
GSM was formed to reduce incompatibility and cost for the phone companies. Linux and J2ME would be the next logical step.
In Europe the task of recycling is being given to the manufacturer of the hardware. The idea being that in many cases manufacturers make their stuff so it is cheap to make, but not necessarily cheap to dispose of. Now manufacturers have an incentive to make products with recyclable materials, because they also need to take into account the cost of recycling.
IMHO, it all boils down to the question whether China really is the market of the future. Sure, it has a large population, and there are currently no mobile phones.
Sounds like you've never been to China or aren't in touch with the state of affairs of the country. When China decided to put in place a telephone infrastructre they went wireless, simply because it was the cheapest and fastest way to provide access to such a large teritory. To give you an idea of the coverage, check out the coverage map of China Mobile Communication Corp. Most people I met in China had mobile phones. In fact the coverage over there makes the setup in North America look terrible.
I don't know if Microsoft ever did anything for these platforms, but there is a third-party company, called Sourcegear that makes a solution for Unix based platforms.
Interestingly enough more sites link to Yahoo than Google, when I did a link search, at Google:
Google: 455 000
Yahoo: 1 100 000
MSN: 51
Slashdot: 37 200
Apple: 57 900
SCO: 5 900
Microsoft: 2 930
For an OS used by so many people the last figure actually surprises me. Is this a question of people being uninterested in linking to Microsoft, or simply an indication that other sites develop more a sense of community? Or, OMG, maybe Google's results aren't accurate? Or something else? I'll leave the conclusions up to you.
Heh, that reminds me: I was cancelling an online subscription last night, and after verifying my password it gave me a summary screen of what I was doing and had two buttons : "Continue to Cancel" and "No, Do Not Cancel".
I can understand the possible confusion, but in theory this should be clearer than 'ok','cancel', but because of the context of the dialogue, the text of the buttons simply fails.
Maybe a better approach would have been 'yes' and 'no': "Are you sure you want cancel the subscription? 'yes','no'". Shorter button texts also tend to me visually clearer, but 'ok and 'cancel' tend to be over used to the extent that they don't always fit the context of the dialogue text.
Just curious, but what are the factors that make you prefer Linux over MacOS X? I am not suggesting that you are wrong to, even if it may come over like that, just that I would be interested in understanding your point of view.
One thing I never quite understood with Microsoft was the shear number of variations of the same OS. Surely having so many variations of the same operating system they are giving themselves a support nightmare? Apple and Sun seem to have two versions of their OSs, server and non-server. This simplifies support issues a whole bunch. Maybe Sun is not such a good example since they are 100% workplace, but Apple on the other hand is found in home and in the workplace.
Generally the only differences between a workstation version of an OS used the workplace are the networking features and the groupware style apps, but then again the latter is extra anyhow. Sure the kernel may be optimized differently, but the core components are architectually the same. Maybe I am missing something, if I am then please let me know?
Although I didn't mention Linux, it too, for any single distro, comes in a limited number of flavours.
Since some commercial book stores already do it, how about adding a Starbucks, or something similar to your public library. In that 'zone', there would be no requirement for quietness. If you want quiet, then leave the coffee and go to the rest of the library.
;)
Also, how about 'community tables' in the coffee shop area? This is something I have already seen in some places. You can sit down at a large table and risk the chance of chatting to someone
What about damage? Well maybe you could have an 'in-library' check out. That way the books come under the same limitations as a normal checked out book.
In the long run, this should be similar to the Coffee sponsored Mozilla approach, so the library would get some return for doing this.
I don't know why, but the more I hear about the SCO suits and the RIAA suits, I am almost certain these lawyers are part of the same old boy network and play golf with each other every afternoon. Just imagine the evil they dream up together.
;)
BTW I think I know who paid for that 'Linux' license, from SCO. It was probably MS for their research project
He suggested that the grid should be split up and then there should be DC inter-connections. Apparantly this would help to reduce surges.
Hydro-Quebec, in Canada, already does this ( Google Cache )
One thing that animation companies could do is reduce the cost of the DVDs. Here in Canada a DVD usually costs around $28 (Canadian) excluding tax, yet an anime DVD is usually in the $36-$46 ball park. Then add to that the first DVD in a series usually has four episodes and then all the subsequent DVDs only have 3, yet at the same cost!?
DVDs are already over-priced as they are. Though all said and done, given that I can't rent, anime DVDs, I find myself caving into buying them. There are many people who will quite happily aquire the 'reduced cost' versions, simply because they can't afford the outrageous prices, or out of principle.
Then again if the Russians managed to fly their shuttle remotely, what would be stopping NASA from doing the same? Then you would only need to put the essential crew on board.
What I would like to see the sorts of modifications that they make to the X-Serve. I can imagine that there will be the sorts of modifications to reduce noise drastically.
Is there a reason that ./ is giving front page coverage to SCO's press release spinning an IBM counterclaim, rather than reporting on the counterclaim itself?
;)
That would require extra work and then again nobody should dare go head to head with tradition
IBM also claims SCO Group has violated the general public license, or the GNU GPL, under which Linux is distributed.
Will this be the first time that the GPL has actually been used as part of a court preceeding? As far as I am aware all companies, who did not orginally comply, have felt that their public image was more important than a challenge of the GPL, and respected the contract of the GPL, even if it did take the FSF or public pressure.
felons have no rights
Before a person should be considered a felon, it should be determined whether the person's rights were taken away before being considered a felon. If they were then it is always possible that an innocent person is labelled a felon when indeed they were exercising their 'legal rights'.
If you have ever walked into an internet cafe anywhere around the world, then you are likely to only be using IE and Windows. For many people the only contact they have with a PC is in internet cafes and most owners put a minimum install. You will also notice that Java is only available in the form of Microsoft's VM, so forget coding your applets with swing, or any other technology not part of JDK 1.1
For people who aren't techies the story is similar. They install what they understand and also what their peers seem to be using. Trying to explain the non-marketed alternatives is not easy. All too often we come off as techies and scare them because we do things differently.
Mozilla has a chance to exist, but it needs to be marketed differently. It needs to be included in the Linux distros and possibly even other 'marginal' OSs. MacOS X now has Safari, so Apple is unlikely to want to include Mozilla as an alternative, because that would mean that they would have to support it. Splitting Mozilla into several components is likely to help as this would make the browser much more appealing to many people. People seem to understand separate products better than a super product that does everything.
To make Mozilla more recognised, I believe three things need to be done: a) provide a 'supported' version b) get inet cafe owner to offer it, or at least Phoenix as an alternative and c) not use the Netscape name. The last point come from me talking to people who think of the cludge of Netscape 4.x when I am talking about Netscape 7.
Is anyone else reminded of that stupid architect from Matrix Reloaded? As though using more syllables implies hyper-intelligence.
The truth is the true genius is able to explain something as complicated as quantum mechanics and have everyone understand, without anyone's head exploding.
Trying to confuse everyone serves no purpose, other than superficially giving oneself an ego boost, and staying even more isolated.
Instead of making a better product, they whine and run away.
Well, that is one strategy and the one I prefer of companies who decide to give up. The other approach is to try to sue the competition for whatever they're worth, even if the arguments are lame. One current example of the later is one 3 letter company suing another 3 letter company and generating 3 letter FUD.
I'm certainly not saying that FCP is the be all, end all for video production (it isn't), but at least give it a chance, Adobe
The problem is if a company doesn't put enough of an effort in maintaining and improving their product, it will end up dying anyway if there is healthy competition. Half-assed work will usually loose out to the product that understands the word 'quality'. I am not saying that Premier is a poor product, but judging from the other posts, it would seem that Adobe's real worst enemy in this case was itself.
10.2.7 is the special 64-bit aware version of OS X, it only (at this stage) runs on G5's
That sounds about right, as the kernel need to be recompiled for the 64-bit processor. At this stage I would not be surprised if user-space is still 32-bit. What I mean by that is that most of the system libraries are still only offering 32-bit interfaces.
I wonder whether the September rollout is more to give developers time to get some development done with the prototype G5s that they probably have. By the time September comes we should see some beta 64-bit apps ready for the public.
I know that this is a lot of 'probably's but, that's all I have for the moment.
double-click on the folder that contains the files.
Thanks - Sarien works wonders. Now if only I could get past the poisonus plants.
It doesn't explicitly say so on the page, but the game seems to be Windows/Dos only.
That's what I noticed as well, so I decided to go off on a quest of my own see what I could find. Turns out the best place to go is to the AGI Development Site and see what's available. You will need to download one of the interpreters, which are listed on the 'links' page.
The one I decided to download was the Java AGI. It comes with no documentation so you will need to compile it yourself and then realise that you need to create an empty 'agi.conf' file (will need to investigate the config values) in the classpath and use com.sierra.agi.tools.AGI to get things running, oh and the 'user.dir' should point to where the game is installed. After all this I am only at the stage at listening to the music, as I see no graphics. This is all on MacOS X, with JDK 1.4.1.